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Tamim Iqbal

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Tamim Iqbal Khan is a Bangladeshi cricket administrator and former cricketer, born on 20 March 1989 in the port city of Chittagong, who has served as president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board since June 2026. A left-handed opening batter, he represented Bangladesh from 2007 to 2023 and scored over 15,000 career runs across Tests, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals, and he was ODI captain from 2020 to 2023. Picked for the 2007 World Cup after playing in the 2006 Under-19 World Cup, he scored 51 off 53 balls against India in the group stage, and in the opening match of the 2011 World Cup he made 70 against India. He is the brother of Nafees Iqbal and the nephew of Akram Khan, both of whom played Test cricket for Bangladesh.

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a Bangladeshi cricket administrator and former cricketer
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    born 20 March 1989
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    A left-handed opening batter, he represented Bangladesh from 2007 to 2023
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    he represented Bangladesh from 2007 to 2023
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    a Bangladeshi cricket administrator and former cricketer
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    was picked for the 2007 World Cup and played against India in the group stage of the competition
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